HOUSES MUST GO
Bob Reiss, from the Re-Echo, Summer 2004

With the development of the Minnesota Rubber property, two of the oldest houses in St. Louis Park will be lost.  There are four located on this property on Oxford Street.  Two of these houses are post WWII, but two were even older and built about 1890.  They are typical of the two story houses built in St. Louis Park at that time by T.B. Walker to house the workers at the Monitor Drill and other industries in the early1890s. 

For years, one house was the home of the Downing family who moved there in 1903.  Frank Downing worked at the Monitor Drill as a tool and die maker.  The house then became the home of the Felber family.  Wes Felber was the depot agent for the St. Louis Railroad.  In the letter written for the Historical Society's book Something in the Water, Florence Felber talked about the family's involvement in the running of the depot and how easy it was for her to run out the back door and be at Lincoln School.

 

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